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Historic Land Use Processes in Alaska's Koyukuk River Area ARCTIC VOL. 42. NO. 2 (JUNE 1989) P. 148-162 Historic Land Use Processes in Alaska’s Koyukuk River Area WENDY H. ARUNDALE‘ and ELIZA JONES’ (Received 9 February 1988; accepted in revised form 21 September 1988) ABSTRACT. Northern Athabaskans with extensive knowledge of their traditional history and culture are increasingly interested in preserving their heritage. The authors areworking with Allakaket area Koyukon people in Alaska to record data on importanthistoric sites and events, but they are also using ethnoarchaeological approaches, particularly Binford’s models of settlement systems and site mobility, to help make the information they gather more valuable to both local Native people and archaeologists. Drawing on their preliminary data, as well as existing research, they describe changes in the late winter part of the seasonal round, showing how, over time, the Koyukon become more logistically organized as they become more sedentary. These changes have interesting archaeological implications, including effects on site mobility patterns. The Koyukon belief system, withan intricate set of traditional beliefs and practices, has significant, though largely unexplored potential for influencing archaeological variability. Key words: Alaska, Athabaskans, archaeology, belief systems, boreal forest, ethnoarchaeology, historic archaeology, historic sites, Koyukon, Koyukuk River, landscape use, settlement patterns, Subarctic RÉSUMÉ. Les Athabaskans du Nord qui possèdent une connaissance approfondie de leur histoire et de leur culture traditionnelles, sont de plus en plus intéressés à préserver leur patrimoine. Les auteurs travaillent actuellement avec des gens de la tribu Koyukon de la région d’Allakaket en Alaska, à consigner des données sur d’importants sites et événements historiques, mais ils utilisent aussi des approches ethnoarchéologiques, en particulier les modèles de Binford se rapportant aux systèmes de peuplement et de migration d’un site à l’autre, pour rendre l’information recueille plus utile, àla fois à la population autochtoneet aux archéologues. S’appuyant sur leurs données préliminaires ainsi que sur la recherche existante, ils décrivent les changements survenant chaque année à la fin de l’hiver, en montrant comment, avec le temps, les Koyukon sont devenus mieux organisés du point de vue logistique au fur et à mesure qu’ils devenaient plus sédentaires. Ces changements ont des implications intéressantes du point de vue archéologique, y compris des répercussions sur les schémas de déplacement d’un site à l’autre. Le système de croyances des Koyukon, constitué d’un ensemble complexe de croyances et de pratiques traditionnelles, pourrait bien - quoiqu’on n’ait pas encore exploré la question à fond - influencer la variabilité archéologique. Mots clés: Alaska, Athabaskans, archéologie, systèmes de croyances, forêt boréale, ethnoarchéologie, archéologie historique,sites historiques, Koyukon, rivière Koyukuk, utilisation de la topographie, schémas de peuplement, subarctique Traduit pour le journal par Nésida Loyer. INTRODUCTION sistence cycle narratives along with other pieces of infor- mation on thehistory and movement of people in this area Doing archaeology in the northern boreal forest has some that can help archaeologists. serious disadvantages that may have a significant impact on These data, taken with other recentresearch onthe research. Field areas can be difficult and expensive to reach, Koyukuk River Koyukon, provideconsiderable information even for researchers living in the North; the insects can be on how their historic patterns of settlement and landscape almost intolerable in the summer; site remainsare sometimes usehave changed overtime. Specifically, they give us a sparse; and the climate makes the season for archaeology detailed look at a particular case of sedentarization among very short, to name only a few. But working in this region a group of northern foragers. Such case studies may ulti- has two distinct advantages. First, the Native people who mately help us better understand this process and how it may have lived here for generations can tell a great deal about be reflectedin the archaeological record.The data also suggest their history and traditionalcultural practices. Thus, it isone someinteresting propositionsabout mobility andthe of the world’s prime areas for using ethnographic and eth- potential influence of the Koyukon belief system. Although nohistoric datato study archaeological problems. And our research is ongoing and the results presented here are second, the region’s Native people are becoming increasingly preliminary, they are still valuable and should be available interested in understanding and recording their own heritage, for discussion and use by others. providing someunique opportunities for collaborative efforts. Our presentation begins with some background infor- Our research has benefited from both these advantages. mation on theKoyukuk River Koyukon and relevant recent Over the past several years, we have been working, both research in their area. Next we discuss the goals of our paper. individually and jointly, with Koyukonpeople from Alaska’s Four sections presenting our results follow. The first gives Koyukuk River region (see Figs. 1 and 2). The context of a sample of our data,a description of thelate winterseasonal our research has been broad, encompassing a wide range of round at four points in time during the last century. The problems. One of us (Jones), a linguist and a Koyukon Native second sets out commentsupon the settlement patterns who was born and raised on the Koyukuk, is focusing on derived from this description.The third discusses site mobility linguistic, geneologicai, and place-name research. The other processes. And the fourth looks at some potential conse- (Arundale), an archaeologist, is working on historic site and quences ofthe Koyukon belief system.We close by discussing land use studies. We both have collected and edited life his- some issues that offer tantalizing opportunities for future tories. From this work have emerged life history and sub- work. ‘Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, U.S.A. ’Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, U.S.A. @The Arctic Institute of North America HISTORIC LAND USE PROCESSES / 149 FIG. 1. Map of Alaska showing location of Koyukon region in relation to other Alaskan Native groups. Taken from A. Clark (1974:2). 150 / W.H. ARUNDALE and E. JONES mentioned in thetext. Taken from Clark (1981a:583). BACKGROUND Koyukon people in the Allakaket area madedirect contact with Westerners at a rather late date. However, for some The Koyukon People unknown time before, they certainly had indirect contact. They had long-standingtrading partnerships with neigh- Alaska’s Koyukon people are among those boreal forest oring Kobuk Iiiupiat, or KovarJmiut, and Brooks Range residents who are ina good positionto informus about their iiupiat, or Nunamiut. Through boththeir Eskimo contacts past.Koyukon speakers constitute the largest single Pand theirrelations with other Koyukon on the lower Koyukuk Athabaskan groupin the state. At least since historic contact, and theYukon, theyundoubtedly participatedin the extensive and probably for a significant period before thattime, they trade networks that encompassed muchof western Alaska have occupied a major portion of Alaska’s interior region during the late prehistoric period and perhaps before (A. along the Yukon and Koyukuk rivers. Today they are con- Clark, 1974:206). centrated in eleven villages,four of which- Huslia, Hughes, By1839 theRussians had reached the mouth of the Alatna, and Allakaket- lie along the KoyukukRiver. The Koyukuk and in 1843, Lt. L. Zagoskin ascended part of its research reported here has focusedon the Allakaket-Alatna lower reaches(Zagoskin, 1967). UndoubtedlyRussian area (subsequentlycalled “the Allakaket area” for brevity), influences reached into the Allakaket area, even though there including the lower Alatna River, the Kanuti River, the Kanuti is no evidence the Russians themselves wereever there. Flats, the lower South Fork of the Koyukuk, and adjacent Disease, too, traveled up the Koyukuk, and Allen (1900) areas. reports that an epidemic, which killed many people, struck HISTORIC LAND USE PROCESSES / 151 the Koyukuk in 1883, the year before the firstrecorded direct extremely helpful, and the enthusiastic cooperationof several contact. local Koyukon experts has made our work possible. Direct contact came first in 1884 when the trader Mayo and an engineer went overland from the Yukon and traded Previous Research with the Allakaket area Koyukon at a site near Mindinaad- lakkaakk’at, the mouthof Lake Creek(Allen, 1900). In 1885, Research on the Koyukuk River area is easier than work Allen contacted the Koyukon at the same location (Allen, on some other northern boreal forest regions because both 1887). By about the sametime prospectors lookingfor gold excellent baseline studies and more recent specialized research began arriving on theKoyukuk, and by 1884-85, prospecting have already been done, providing a strong foundation on had begunat Hughes, about 60 airline miles below Allakaket which to build. This work includes: (1) Baseline studies in (Orth, 1967:436).By 1897, the first steamboat had ascended both ethnohistory and archaeology by Annette McFadyen the river. Between 1897and 1906, the gold rush broughtmore Clark (1974,1975,1981a) and Donald Clark(1972,1974,1977;
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